Nostalgia

A glance at the list of each European national team’s record goalscorers will throw up some of the most iconic...

English football has had many engaging characters down through the decades, men who stirred up passions amongst those who watched...

Who’s your favourite Brazilian footballer? If you’re my age, it’s probably Ronaldo or Ronaldinho. If you’re older, maybe it’s Romario,...

The season had now reached March 1981. Villa’s seven game winning run had just been ended by a thrilling 3-3...

Tuesday was a sad day for English football as another of the heroes from 1966 passed away. Roger Hunt was...

Fernando Romero - Bobby Robson: More Than a Manager A few days ago, I watched the Michael Schumacher documentary that...

The FIFA World Cup is a glorious celebration of world football, bringing together players and fans from every corner of...

This article was originally posted on Tale of Two Halves by David Nesbit in September 2019. Last Saturday saw what...

Going to the pub, Sunday roasts, and drinking tea are just some of Britain's traditions. Perhaps the most important one...

The news has finally arrived of the passing away of Jimmy Greaves; arguably the greatest striker this country has ever...

This is the story of Aston Villa’s league title season 1980-81. We have now reached December 1980, where Villa were...

This is the story of Aston Villa's incredible run to the league title in 1980-81. The previous decade had seen...

This article was originally published by Liam Togher on Tale of Two Halves in July 2018. Growing up in the...

The late seventies and early eighties are most memorable for fantastic music, questionable outfits and Margaret Thatcher becoming Prime Minister....

The news this week yet another ex-footballer has been diagnosed with dementia has come as quite a shock. For me,...

Bob Wilson is a true footballing legend as a goalkeeper, a coach, and a tv sports presenter. His playing career...

Welcome to the next instalment of our ‘Falls from Grace’ series where we take a look back at the rapid...

The late seventies and early eighties are most memorable for fantastic music, questionable outfits and Margaret Thatcher becoming Prime Minister....

If you ask any little girl or boy who their favourite player is, it will usually be a striker. These...

The late seventies and early eighties are most memorable for fantastic music, questionable outfits and Margaret Thatcher becoming Prime Minister....

Previously, we discussed how a manager that had been at the top of the European game was lured by his...

With the Premier League being the most competitive league to play in for players across the world, it is hardly...

The European cup Winners’ Cup, which ran from 1960 to 1999, has been associated with some pretty glamorous names over...

The world of football is now missing one of its greatest ever strikers after the death of Gerd Müller. The...

"I became a footballer by an accident" French football has benefited a lot from the black footballers. However, many of...

A running theme in our new series is the number of clubs who hit upon hard times shortly after delivering...

This article was originally published on Tale of Two Halves in September 2018 Standing as one of the most iconic...

In the modern age, when football from across the globe can be streamed straight into our eyeballs with ever greater...

With the new season underway in the Football League, and with the Premier League starting on Friday, we asked some...

About to begin life in the Premier League, boasting a squad bristling with talent and housed in a brand-new stadium,...

PAUL BREEN looks back at the short and turbulent life of English football’s first openly gay player and the way...

Football clubs around the world have different histories and roots. Some of them were founded by students, some by the...

In this life You're on your own And if the elevator tries to bring you down Go crazy (“Let’s Go...

Former Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez’s shock appointment at Everton, this summer, has caused ripples in the footballing world. He is...

Ordinarily, football goes in cycles and no one club dominates indefinitely; even supposed dynasties such as Liverpool in the 1970s...

As the latest European Championships finished in the most dramatic way possible with Italy beating England at Wembley on penalties...

This is the story of an international football match causing an international incident, which had ramifications for many years after....

“Some of these trips we made last a week, it was a holiday. It was different. Different places, different food,...

Certain clubs seem to teem with tradition and are thus regarded by some to have always been amongst the biggest...

Last time out we opened our series on ‘Falls from Grace” with a look at possibly the Granddaddy of them...

El Maracanazo 1989 refers to an incident when Chilean goalkeeper Roberto Rojas attempted to cheat Brazil out of a place...

“The door opened from the cockpit and a bottle of vodka rolled down the aisle.” If crossing the Iron Curtain...

One can only wonder at the pride a certain Mr and Mrs Charlton must have felt on 30th July 1966...

‘Did you know there used to be a 6 Nations for football?’ ‘Seriously? With France and Italy?’ ‘No, just the...

Some things in football, as in life, are deemed worse than others. For example, Alan Shearer, amongst others, contends there...

The modern game sees the sands shifting more regularly than ever before and such are its inconsistencies and vagaries that...

As football fans, we often get carried away by our passion for the beautiful game, making claims that it is the...

It had been an incredible couple of seasons for Swindon. League Cup winners and promoted to the Second Division in...

This article was originally published on Tale of Two Halves by Sam Bettany (@bettany_sam) As confirmed recently, a bid by...

When Lionel Messi retires, will he become a plumber? When Cristiano Ronaldo hangs up his boots, will he become a...